Xerrick

An eccentric gnome artificer. He is credited with the invention of constructs, though he only had the opportunity to build them due to being financed by and taken under the wing of the wizard Dagolar. He was furnished with a workshop in the Airy Mountains and given free reign to pursue his passions.

When he was given the Eye of Kiltzi and other more mundane gemstones to experiment upon, his keen mind was able to discern the powerful properties which lay dormant within. Sadly, his studies seem to have driven him mad. The Liberators found his journal, which described his findings thusly:"“These gems contain valuable properties, far more than their worth in gold.”""“Their opposing characteristics can be arranged to produce a number of surprising phenomena.”""“Today, though I am no sorcerer, I levitated a rock. Nearly lost a finger when I reversed the orientation and the rock shot back like a bolt.”"There was also a chart, crossed over and rewritten multiple times, that seems to describe the essence of the gemstones: Xerrick used this knowledge and the Eye of Kiltzi to create S.A.R.A., a sentient construct, his final and greatest achievement. Sometime before our heroes found his workshop, Dagolar betrayed his trust and used Xerrick's studies against him in an attempt to transform him into an abomination: a living construct phylactery. Xerrick's frail body did not survive the procedure, and he was found trapped within Dagolar's Lair as an undying and rotted husk.

His final act was clearing the flaming entrance to Dagolar's chamber for The Liberators, as thanks for freeing him from his torment. .